We ran into this on the project I’m working on. We found this blog post to be a pretty good way to do this: https://www.viget.com/articles/how-to-redirect-from-the-phoenix-router/

We ended up with a plug that lets us do this:

get "/", Redirect, to: "/datasets"

You can see our implementation here: https://github.com/smartcitiesdata/smartcitiesdata/blob/master/apps/andi/lib/andi_web/plugs/redirect.ex
https://github.com/smartcitiesdata/smartcitiesdata/blob/master/apps/andi/lib/andi_web/router.ex

It looks like there is a plug_redirect package in Hex that does adds a redirect keyword. Their Readme suggests using it as its own Plug in your endpoint, but at a quick glance I don’t see any reason you couldn’t use it in a Phoenix router

I think this is a good idea, if a little niche. although you’d want to implement it as redirect "/", "/users" because redirect "/", UserController, :list is ambiguous. Multiple paths can route to the same controller action.

Phoenix.Controller.redirect/2 is a plug, and the generated router for phoenix has it imported by default. Together with forward you should be able to use it already without the need for additional code.